CREDIT AGRICOLE SUISSE OPEN GSTAAD 2012
Tipsarevic Tested By Qualifier In Gstaad; Defending Champ Granollers Falls
Gstaad, Switzerland
by ATP Staff
|19.07.2012
© Valeriano Di Domenico/Fresh FocusLukasz Kubot beat the defending champion Marcel Granollers.
Top seed Janko Tipsarevic fought to overcome Austrian qualifier Martin Fischer 4-6, 7-6(1), 6-3 on Thursday at the Crédit Agricole Suisse Open Gstaad, twice rallying from behind in his second-round opener.
The 245th-ranked Fischer, playing just his 18th tour-level match, went up a set and a break before the World No. 8 rallied to clinch the second set in the tie-break. Tipsarevic fell behind again as he dropped serve in the third game of the third set, but drew level in the next game. He broke for a 5-3 lead and served out the win after two hours and 37 minutes.
Tipsarevic had won his first clay-court title on Sunday at the MercedesCup in Stuttgart. He is making his Gstaad debut this week.
Poland's Lukasz Kubot knocked out in-form second seed and defending champion Marcel Granollers of Spain 6-4, 6-2. Last week, World No. 20 Granollers lost to Marin Cilic in the ATP Vegeta Croatia Open Umag final.
The 30 year-old Kubot is through to his third ATP World Tour quarter-final of the season (also Memphis and Bucharest) after victory in one hour and 37 minutes.
World No. 61 Grigor Dimitrov will next challenge Kubot after the Bulgarian beat German qualifier Dustin Brown 7-6(3), 3-6, 6-2 in one hour and 35 minutes.
“It was a funny match,” said Dimitrov. “He is a very tricky player. It was a great win for me. Conditions were tough and everything went in a smooth way. I am starting to feel I am playing well on all surfaces now. It’s coming together.”
World No. 212 Jan Hernych advanced to his first ATP World Tour quarter-final in three-and-a-half years (2009 PBZ Zagreb Indoors semi-finals, l. to Ancic). The Czech qualifier saved 15 of 19 break points to beat No. 39-ranked Santiago Giraldo, the seventh seed from Colombia, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4.
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